Reliving the past

By: Bree-2006

Chapter 3

AN: Well I'm back, I'm sorry I didn't update for a while, summer school has been terrible. I'm writing this chapter on an extremely short attention span but I hope it makes as much sense as I can muster up. Thank you for the reviews u rock!

Yuna walked diligently through the dark and damp halls of the Omega Ruins. The air she breathed smelled of sulfur and incurable disease. Small squeaking and scurrying noises scattered across the cold floor. The three women swallowed hard as tiny insects crawled up and down their legs and slimy reptiles scattered across the halls walls. Rikku jumped as the wind began to rustle around her, its cool essence flowing freely through the cloth of her bikini top and short shorts.

"Are we almost there yet?" The blond asked her companions. Yuna shook her head.

"Who knows…this hall seems to go on forever" Yuna held herself as if she was freezing. Paine looked at Rikku who stared blankly at the barely lit area.

"You know if this dimness is so bad you could always turn yourself into a black mage and use firaga to brighten this place up a bit." Rikku's eyes lit up with happiness.

"That's a great idea Paine...why didn't I think of that?" Paine smiled in cruel humor.

"…because your mental capacity has exceeded its limit." Yuna giggled slightly as Rikku scratched her head.

"Huh?" Paine stifled a smile.

"My points exactly…"

The women stopped laughing as loud screeching made its way to their ears. Shadows crawled across the ceiling and the walls telling the girls that they weren't the only one there.

Yuna pressed her garment grid turning herself into a berserker. Rikku pressed hers so that she became an alchemist. Paine stayed in her warrior form as the three stood together back to back in the center of the room.

The creature walked slowly into their view its horns reflecting what little light fluttered through the room. Yuna sighed and somehow she knew that this fight was not going to be easy.

The fiend charged for the girls at an incredibly fast speed, they dodged it easily. Yuna slammed her claws into its hard scales doing little damage. The fiend growled in anger as Paine jammed her sword into its barely uncovered flesh. Rikku mixed Mega-Potion after Mega-Potion trying to keep her and her friends healthy, but like their other battle when they first entered the ruins, their attacks would do very little damage due to the fiends scales. Yuna screamed in pain as the fiends tail slammed into her backside. She fell daintily to the floor trying to keep her self up for her friend's sake. Yuna dug into her bag for a potion and quickly used it to heal herself.

"This one is almost as bad as the last one." She screamed to her friends.

"You're telling me!" Rikku shouted back still mixing potions.

"I have a feeling we can't run from this one!" Paine shouted to her fellow warriors.

"You girls won't have to!" Rikku turned to the voice recognizing it instantly.

"Gippal?" the man shot bullets into the creature nodding to the young al-bhed.

"We heard you needed help, so we're here." Rikku folded her arms angrily.

"We are just fine thank you very much" Rikku bellowed as she ditched an oncoming blow from the fiend. Nooj pounded the fiend with ranged attacks and Baralai hit it forcefully with his two ended stick. Tidus flung his Catablog onto its hard scales peeling them back slowly. Yuna turned herself into lady luck and used magic reels to create a disastrous attack called flare. It burned into the fiend killing it instantly and where it had recently stood thousands of Pyreflies escaped out of its dispersing body.

"That's one way to do it" Gippal smiled.

"Let's go before we attract any more of those things." Paine sounded. Yuna and Rikku nodded. The tunnel still continued for another five minutes, the air began to get thin and the halls seemed to do the same. Yuna looked at the slimy green walls. Her head began to pound heavily. She stopped trying to gain her composure. Out of the corner of his eye Tidus saw her stop. Tidus looked to the others who didn't bother turning around. After a brief moment Tidus ran over to a panting Yuna.

"Yuna…! Are you alright?" he said quietly placing his arm on her back. Yuna looked up at him.

"I think so…all of a sudden I got a strange feeling." Helping her stand Tidus wrapped his arm around her waist steadying her.

"A strange feeling…of what?" Yuna looked at the walls again.

"I'm not really sure…" Rikku ran back to her chattery friends.

"Hey love birds it's not time for all the love-dovey stuff." Yuna smiled and Tidus blushed slightly. Rikku giggled and then Gippal called to her.

"Leave'em alone Riks" Rikku sighed and ran back to the al bhed man.

The end of the tunnel finally came within sight and Yuna's eyes brightened. She swiftly grabbed Tidus's hand and walked to the head of the group. As she reached the opening she turned her head to Tidus who smiled in return. Upon the entrance to the end of the tunnel Yuna's eyes glazed over as she spotted a lone sphere in the center of the room. She looked around to be sure that there were no fiends within sight while the others readied their weapons. Yuna walked to it, she picked it up slowly and let its cool exterior glide through her palms. Yuna turned to her friends, they all stared attentively at the sphere she was holding pondering its contents.

"Why don't we watch it?" She asked as she moved to it's on and off switch. Everyone nodded except for Rikku who squealed and Yuna turned it on.

His piercing evil eyes stared into hers. One could get lost in those eyes, so clear so…natural. Anyone but her…

She stared skeptical of the man. He held his hand out to her, claws adorning his rough fingers.

She had no choice but to agree to his proposal and from the look on her face she wanted to run…run away from this man. She gently placed her hand in his as he led her up the steep slope to the Bevelle temple.

Suddenly out of the corner of her eye she saw them, her friends, her family, and her true love. She smiled as the man beside her pulled her forward. She looked up to see her friends sliding gracefully down the highwinds ropes and wires. The guns around her fired sending shockwaves into her. She began to pray that none of her friends would get hit and thankfully none of them did. She was still being harshly dragged, but all that ran through her mind was to let them be alright.

They landed and began battling to reach her. She tried to pull away but the man held onto her wrists. They finally had made their way to her, all that stood in their way was an elite force of solders. Her eyes shifted to her friends-one-by-one. Her gaze dropped to him and her eyes dug into his pleading him to help her. He slightly nodded but before either of them knew it her lips pressed fiercely upon the man who had been beside her. The two pulled apart as gasps were heard around them. She looked to her love whose eyes held an amount of anger she hadn't known existed.

"Kill them" her heart broke and she stared angrily at the man before her. 'No!' her mind pleated 'You wont!'

She broke free moving to the edge of the temple. She wouldn't let them be hurt.

"NO!" she screamed as she stared daggers at the man. Everyone turned to her.

They screamed her name. She turned to them smiled and looked back to evil man. His face held fear and his blue hair swayed to the breeze. His voice cut through her ears and she looked at him. He screamed her name, telling her not to but she just smiled at him.

"Don't worry…I can fly"

And then she fell. He ran to the edge and peeked over. Sure enough there she was escaping safely. He looked to his friends, nodding that she would be fine, and looked to one for an escape plan.

"Everyone shield your eyes!" Smoke formed around them and as fast as they had come they were gone.

As the smoke cleared and the blue haired man stood there bewildered.

She had…gotten away.

The sphere shut off and Yuna looked sadly at it. The woman the one being forced into something she didn't want…had been her and that man forcing her had been Seymour. Tidus walked to her and held her as she silently wept.

"After all these years…I still cant believed that happened." Yuna grasped on to Tidus's shirt and slowly handed Rikku the sphere.

"Come on…let's go home"

There it's finally done! Thanks for the reviews read and review!